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Useful Tropical Plants

Strychnos longicaudata

Gilg.

Loganiaceae

+ Synonyms

Strychnos bequaerti De Wild.

Strychnos brevicymosa De Wild.

Strychnos niamniamensis (Gilg) Gilg

Strychnos nigrovillosa De Wild.

Common Name:

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General Information

Strychnos longicaudata is a climbing shrub that can produce stems up to 60 metres long and 15cm in diameter. It can grow into the canopy of the forest, attaching itself by means of tendrils[
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Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa.
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An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa.
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The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa.
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Author
Burkil. H. M.
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Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew.
Year
1985 - 2004
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Description
Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/
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The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and source of wood.

Known Hazards

The plant is used as an ingredient of arrow poison[
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Botanical References

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Flora of West Tropical Africa
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An online flora, not yet complet (2012). Very comprehensive as regards to species covered, but the information on each species is often rather terse.

Range

West tropical Africa - Cote d'Ivoire east to the Central African Republic and south to DR Congo.

Habitat

Moist localities and on river banks in rainforest, including the more open secondary formations; at elevations from sea-level up to 700 metres[
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Properties

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Other Uses Rating *  *
HabitClimber
Height35.00 m
Cultivation StatusWild

Cultivation Details

Not known

Edible Uses

None known

Medicinal

Unspecified plant parts are used to treat chest-complaints, malaria[
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A maceration of the twig bark in palm wine is taken as an aphrodisiac[
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Preliminary tests of leafy twigs from Côte d’Ivoire and leaves and seeds from Cameroon showed the presence of the monomeric strychnine class indole alkaloids icajine and vomicine. The root bark contains the dimeric tertiary longicaudatine and its isomer bisnor-C-alkaloid H[
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An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa.
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The chloroform fraction of a bark extract showed a weak muscle-relaxant effect. Although icajine does not have an intrinsic antiplasmodial activity, it did reverse chloroquine resistance in in-vitro tests and proved to be synergistic with mefloquine[
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An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa.
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Other Uses

The pale, dirty yellow or creamy wood is used to make arrow-shafts, machete handles and other small implements[
299
Title
Protabase - Plant Resources of Tropical Africa.
Publication
 
Author
 
Website
http://www.prota.org
Publisher
 
Year
0
ISBN
 
Description
An excellent on-line database with detailed information on over 3,200 species of useful plants of Africa.
,
332
Title
The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa.
Publication
 
Author
Burkil. H. M.
Publisher
Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew.
Year
1985 - 2004
ISBN
 
Description
Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/
].

Propagation

Seed -
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